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Utah's Sen. Mike Lee wants pirates back in the Caribbean, and elsewhere.
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Avast me hearties, time to break out your cutlasses and take to the high seas and other places in the name of Black Beard and Johnny Depp. Ah yes, the smell of salt air and gunpowder and the burning in the breast of self-righteousness. It can all be ours once again with Sen.
Mike Lee's “The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025,” which sanctions modern-day privateers (that's you and me) to seize foreign vessels from cartels or cartel-linked organizations, or anyone with brown skin in fishing boats “outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories.”
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